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Small Blue and the Bonsai Datacenter
Via Flickr IBM today announced new datacenter investment plans to bolster its cloud computing presence. They’re going to spend $1.2 billion to build 15 new datacenters (seen above, lower shelf). After some consultation with the Twitterati on matters of long division, it appears IBM is going to spend a whopping $80 million per datacenter.…
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Amazon: Retailer or Platform Company?
Amazon’s App Store for Android has been denounced as “Rotten To The Core” by Shifty Jelly, a small Australian developer. It would be safe to say Shifty Jelly’s experience as the “Free App of the Day” didn’t meet their expectations. The headline complaint was that developers don’t actually get paid by Amazon when they’re the…
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Priceless Indeed
Amidst news of Amazon’s apparent surrender today in the war with Macmillan over ebook pricing, the highlighted book on Macmillan’s home page is Priceless, subtitled “The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It)”: I haven’t read the book so can’t comment on whether this placement is intentional or ironic, but it…